specially open to
attacks of infectious disease. * * * The brutalizing effect of
beer-alcoholism is shown most clearly by the fact that in
Germany crimes of personal violence, particularly dangerous
bodily injuries, occur most frequently in Bavaria where there
is the highest consumption of beer."--DR. HUGO HOPPE, Nerve
Specialist, Konigsberg, Germany.

"The life insurance companies make a business of estimating
men's lives, and can only make money by making correct estimates
of whatever influences life. Now they expect a man otherwise
healthy, who is addicted to beer-drinking, will have his life
shortened from 40 to 60 per cent. For instance if he is twenty
years old and does not drink beer he may reasonably expect to
live until he is 61. If he is a beer-drinker he will probably
not live to be over 35. If he is 30 years old when he begins to
drink beer he will probably drop off somewhere between 40 and 45
instead of living to 64 as he should. There is no sentiment,
prejudice or assertion about these figures. They are simply
cold-blooded business facts, derived from experience, and the
companies invest their money on them just the same as a man pays
so many dollars for so many feet of ground or bushels of
wheat."--DR. S. S. THORN, Toledo, Ohio, in U. S. Senate
Document, published in 1901.

"Fatty degeneration of various organs is frequently witnessed in
beer-drinkers. Diabetes mellitus is frequently due to
beer-drinking, and is made much worse by its continuance. In
Germany more than half of the cases in the inebriate asylums
enter from beer-drinking. In Bavaria, the women are not able
properly to suckle their children because of the universal
consumption of their favorite national drink. Indeed, so grave
are the evils caused by beer-drinking that the fight against
beer should now be conducted as strenuously as that against
stronger liquors."--DR. LEGRAIN, Paris, France.

DRUG DRINKS.

In the report of the President's Homes Commission, Senate Document 644,
may be found a list of soft drinks examined by the Bureau of Chemistry.
The report says:--

"Attention is directed to the danger of soft drinks containing
caffeine, and extract of coca leaf, the active principle of the
latter being cocaine. * * * We have seen how the opium habit may
be acquired by the use of the v